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Ability to set schedule on the TS7700 cache process

By the default, the TS7700 cache walk process runs every four hours daily, except on Sunday for a period of about 18 hours. This cache walk process has raised some concern from many customers that it may impact job run time.
almost 5 years ago in IBM TS7700 0 Future consideration

Business unit field per VM

For reporting purpose it would be useful to have an option to add information per VM.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Alerts frequency for Spectrum Protect Serves

We would like to request that an update to the code for the alerts frequency to be an adjustable settings, since as of now, it alerts every hour and cannot be changed.Thanks!
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 1 Future consideration

CDM support for VVols

Customer is looking for CDM to support full VVols functionality. VVols is running in production in this customer site.
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

SCDM should allow for customization of permissions it sets on Oracle directories, or just leave the permissions alone.

SCDM changes the existing permissions on the /apps/oracle/admin directory and other files when an instant oracle database restore is performed. SCDM should either put them back exactly the way were before the restore job started, or allow for cust...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / IBM Spectrum Protect Plus 1 Future consideration

Do not register mount proxy nodes in configuration wizard

After installation, the Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments GUI needs to be configured. URL: https://localhost:9081/TsmVMwareUI/ If the GUI is called for the first time, the Configuration Wizard automatically starts. At the definition of the...
almost 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect for Virtual Environments 1 Future consideration

Spectrum Copy Data Manager needs to support Metro Mirror or Metro Mirror with Consistency volumes

CDM needs to support Metro Mirror in addition to global mirror change volumes. This would decrease the need for additional space on the primary storage.
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 1 Future consideration

Advanced Analytics and cataloging for Spectrum Protect

At present, Spectrum Protect does not seem to provide an advanced method of querying its database to find things such as duplicated files around the environment, file ownership, usage by owner, etc. This capability can make it difficult to find ob...
about 5 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Product functionality 2 Future consideration

Supporting Cloud-Container Storage pools on zLinux

Cloud-container storage pools is a feature that that already exists on Spectrum Protect family but it is not supported neither has a roadmap for it on top of Linux on Z.Today Sicoob already uses Spectrum protect on Linux on Z and not having a prop...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Server) 1 Future consideration

Enable the use of VPC Endpoint Interface URL for S3 bucket access when defining Cloud Container Storage Pool in Operations Ce

When defining a cloud container storage pool, an option of 'Other' URL is given, and in the CLI a CLOUDUrl can be specified with a custom URL. Instructions say to use the region S3 endpoint URL. https://www.ibm.com/docs/en/spectrum-protect/8.1.11?...
over 2 years ago in Storage Protect Family / Spectrum Protect (Operations Center) 2 Future consideration

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